A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

To the mean all becomes mean.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.